Reading the Wealth of Nations and Smith's other writings -- How does Smith achieve a synthesis in writing? -- Nature's dupes : irony and economic agency in Smith's writing -- The political economy of Castle Rackrent : Maria Edgeworth and Adam Smith -- Exemplification strategy in Adam Smith's...

This book is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published...